Resources

Online resources

The following links will open new browser windows for Web sites with lots of helpful information about financing your college education. You'll find links to handy calculators, scholarship search sites, glossaries of financial aid terminology, and more.

FinAid.org This award-winning site has grown into the most comprehensive annotated collection of information about student financial aid on the Web. The site's array of calculators includes college cost estimators, loan payment calculators, and savings projectors.

Scholarship Resource Network Express This site contains a database of over 8,000 programs with a distribution level of more than 150,000 awards for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Fastweb.com is the oldest free online scholarship matching service. Their database has more than 600,000 scholarships totaling over $1 billion. A full-time research staff adds nearly 250 new scholarships each week and updates scholarship information daily.

Collegenet.com provides links to several federal government education Web sites.

Collegeboard.com is a production of the College Board, the creator of the SAT test. The site is about "all things college" and includes a comprehensive section about paying for college. Also, you can register online to take the SAT.

CareersAndColleges.com Sign up and search through the database of 200,000+ scholarships.

ScholarshipExperts.com is a free and trusted scholarship resource that allows students to search for updated and accurate scholarship information. They employ a professional staff of data researchers to maintain an up-to-date database of over 2.4 million scholarships worth more than $15.5 billion.